NXIVM leader promoted starvation and obedience among women followers: former member

The women in a secret sex cult within self-help organization NXIVM were a “gaggle” of undernourished followers who looked like “skeletons” and had their weight closely monitored by the group’s leader and his enforcers, a former member testified Monday.

Filmmaker Mark Vicente told jurors the women, allegedly members of a “master/slave” sex sect within NXIVM in which they were literally branded and ordered to have sex with leader Keith Raniere, were led by former “Smallville” actress Allison Mack — who was also so disturbingly thin Vicente voiced his concerns to Raniere about the women’s health.

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“There’s something not stable about (Mack) and she’s got this gaggle of women following her that are not doing well,” said Vicente, who was on his second day of testimony at Raniere’s trial in Brooklyn Federal Court for charges including sex trafficking.

Vicente said he specifically approached the leader about Mack, who looked “broken.”